Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of class, students will be able to...

  • practice analysis as evidenced by pre-reading, vocabulary and annotations.


Due Today:

  • None.

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  • Due Tue 11/2: All Pre-Reading Annotations
  • Due Fri 11/4: Huckleberry Finn Annotations Chapters 7-11 p. 30-62 choose quotes to elaborate/anlayze the following:
    1. What type of person Huck reveals his father to be and Huck's relationship with his father
    2. Huck's feelings about the river and living closely with nature
    3. Huck and Jim's reasons and differences in their motivation to escape
    4. Find an object/topic of satire and use a quote to explain the serious message it represents

Essential Questions:

  • What are the philosophical assumptions of romantics and how do they show up in texts?
  • How does history influence texts?

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  • Bring Huckleberry Finn Every Day!
  • English 11 Tutoring TUE and THU after school in Ms. Savino's room 702

Agenda
1. Learning Logs Quick Write: What would you do?
  • If you could trade one quality for another, would you? For example, if being popular is important to you, would you trade having money for popularity?
    • Prompt: What do you value, money, popularity, car, friends, good looks, happiness etc. and what would you be willing to trade to have more of it? Would you trade some of one thing to have more of another? Nothing, some?
2. Washington Irving "The Devil and Tom Walker"
Pre-Reading
1. Research the author and make notes on the blank page
      • When was the story published?
      • Two facts about what was going on in the U.S. at that time?
      • Follow the steps to pre-reading All annotations should appear on your text/story!!
      • Before you read: Circle key terms and underline the definitions or explanations